City of Joburg region B Citizen Relationship and Urban Management, Pikitup and JMPD carried out a joint operation to clean up Noreen Avenue in Bordeaux on 19 February.
The city cleared the Street and collected the piles of rubbish including beds, dustbins, trolleys, and blankets used by vagrants.
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The joint operation was done to clear the area as some of the residents complained about vagrants and the rubbish on the Street sidewalks.
Ward 102 Inspector Sibusiso Mavimbela complained that the vagrants had turned the area into an illegal dumping site. “This people sleep, cook and urinate here and it is close to school,” he explained.
He said the regional office was planning to clean up the area for every three weeks. “We are arranging with managers from other department to see if we can incorporate them into our plans,” he continued.
According to Mavimbela, the City was working on a long term plan to completely eradicate the problem of vagrants.
“The displaced people don’t want to go to the shelter in Braamfontein. Here they are interfering on the lives of rate payers and it is their right to move wherever they want,” he further explained.
He concluded that although they would not forcefully evict displaced people from their hotspots they always advise them to use City’s place of shelter.
Details: City of Joburg 011 718 9688.
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